Introduction : a sense of loss : an overview of the historiography of Romanesque and Gothic Art / Conrad Rudolph -- Artifex and Opifex - the Medieval artist / Beate Fricke -- Vision / Cynthia Hahn -- Materials, materia, "materiality" / Aden Kumler -- Reception of images by Medieval viewers / Madeline Harrison Caviness -- Narrative, narratology, and meaning / Suzanne Lewis -- Formalism / Linda Seidel -- Gender and Medieval art / Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz -- Gregory the Great and image theory in Northern Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Herbert L. Kessler -- Iconography / Shirin Fozi - Art and exegesis / Christopher G. Hughes -- Whodunnit? Patronage, the canon, and the problematics of agency in Romanesque and Gothic art / Jill Caskey -- Collecting (and display) / Pierre Alain Mariaux -- The concept of Spolia / Dale Kinney -- The monstrous / Thomas E.A. Dale -- Making sense of marginalized images in manuscripts and religious architecture / Laura Kendrick -- Definitions and explanations of the Romanesque style in architecture from the 1960s to the present day / Eric Fernie -- Romanesque sculpture in Northern Europe / Colum Hourihane -- Modern origins of Romanesque sculpture / Robert A. Maxwell -- The historiography of Romanesque manuscript illumination / Adam S. Cohen -- The study of Gothic architecture / Stephen Murray -- France, Germany, and the historiography of Gothic sculpture / Jacqueline E. Jung -- Gothic manuscript illustration : the case of France / Anne D. Hedeman -- "'Specially English' : Gothic illumination c.1190 to the early fourteenth century" / Kathryn A. Smith -- From institutional to private and from Latin to the vernacular : German manuscript illumination in the thirteenth century / Michael Curschmann -- Glazing Medieval buildings / Elizabeth Carson Pastan -- Toward a historiography of the sumptuous arts / Brigitte Buettner -- Reliquaries / Cynthia Hahn -- East meets West : the art and architecture of the Crusader states / Jaroslav Folda -- Gothic in the Latin East / Michalis Olympios -- Art and liturgy in the Middle Ages / Eric Palazzo -- Architectural layout : design, structure, and construction in Northern Europe / Marie-Thérèse Zenner -- Sculptural programs / Bruno Boerner -- The art and architecture of female monasticism / Jeffrey E. Hamburger -- Cistercian architecture / Peter Fergusson -- Art and pilgrimage : mapping the way / Paula Gerson -- "The scattered limbs of the giant" ; recollecting Medieval architectural revivals / Tina Waldeier Bizzarro -- Medieval art collections / Janet T. Marquardt -- The modern Medieval museum / Michelle P. Brown.